A case study on changing religious perception in the globalization process: Istanbul Nişantaşı and Sultanbeyli samples

Globalization has emerged as a result of the interactions between economic, political, cultural, geographical and technological factors. Although the concept has been on the agenda of the social sciences in the 1990s, there is still a debate about what the globalization is and what the processes are. It is possible to evaluate the relationship between globalization and religion in the framework of the universal principles of religions. The fact that religions contain universal messages and the purpose of conveying these messages to the whole world has forced the religions to interact with globalization. This interaction has led to changes in perceptions of religion and religiosity in societies. Having suffered from the globalization and its effects were felt in Turkey at the societal level. This change is rather felt by the differences in traditional belief and life understanding.